St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-25
The BERGEOH BAG.
a New Enemy to Consumption ana
Chronic Throat Troubles.
ALI About the New Treatment By One
Who Has Devoted Several Months to
Its Study When 1t Was First
Tested in America.

destroyer of the human race. Some
| sections of this country suffer more
than others, and the old practitioner of
decade ago put all sorts of nauseous
remedies down the throat of the con-
sumptlve patient in order to relieve him,
but the consumptive died all the same,
| and at last the old practitioner, weary
| OF successive defeat, declared in his
wisdom that consumption was incurable.
The statlsticianS of the profession in
| computing the death rate and its causes
declared that out of
EVERY SEVEN HUMAN BEINGS
born one died of consumption. This
terrible array of cOld-blooded figuring
caused a big stir amongst the doctors.
and again they stroye to check tbs
progress of this dread monster.
First Koch, of Germany, discovered
the little germ which caused consump-
ton in the majority of cases, now known
to the scientific world as the ''tubercle
bacillus" Then it was found that COWS
also had the tubercle bacillus in their
lungs, and at once it flashed upon the
minds of the doctors that
THE MILK OF COWS so AFFECTED
would when used as food spread the
disease, and the various boards of health
at once quarantined diseased dairy cows,
and appointed commissioners to search
for and destroy all animals afflicted with
the lung plague" as it is called, as the
present commissioners i'll Chicago are
now doing.
Then it was discovered that cows
never developed the ''tubercle bacillus"
except when they were improperly fed,
and kept in badlyventilated stables. They
also discovered that when a COW so af-
fected was placed amidst the proper
surroundings, which would enable her
to take on fat, then the disease left her
in the majority of cases, and she got
well.
This was grand hint to the lung
specialist, who argued that if getting
fat cured the cow why should not the
taking on of flesh cure consumption in
the human being? This theory set the
whole profession afame once more, and
every doctor sought for some form of
fat to administer to the constructive
patient, and, as usually results in these
cases, the matter was OverdOne. All
sorts of fats were used, even to the fat
of the dog, in which some claimed to
have found the sovereign cure. Out
side of the repulsive features of such an
article used as medicine, dog fat was
found to give no better results than any
other fat, and it was consequently dis
CQluCo cliu COO-llfC1 VII SuDSGlIuItus
This was found to be the most easily
digeSted of all fats, land, as the consump-
tives dislike fats amazingly and cannot
digest them as rule, the adoption of
cOd-liver oil was a great stride forward
in the cure of consumption.
INITIATION OF OXYGEN.
While the scientific world was work
ing thus to discover way to remedy
this dread disease, another class-the
INSCRIPTIONS one represented by the
uneducated specialists-were trying to
overthrow all the good that was being
done by the others, by advertising
widely a new and certain cure for con-
sumption by the inhalation of oxygen
and its compounds. This bubble has
now exploded, and every scientific man
knows that in the majority of cases the
inhalation of oxygen does no good
whatever, and in a large number of
cases it
MAKES THE PATIENT WORSE.
With the use of cOd-liver oil and
other remedies consumption received a
severe check, still the majority of pa
tientS went on in their course, and died
as of old-namely, the fever resulting
from the liberation and broken-d0wn
lung caused hectic sweats at night,
which so exhausted the patient as to
undo all the good the other remedies ac-
compliShed. So, the treatment of con-
sumption once more took halt, only to
receive new light and new stimulation
within few months past.
Claude Bernard, the most eminent of
all French psychologists, discovered,
few years since, that if
SULPHURETTED HYDROGEN GAS.
or marsh gas, as the chemiStrieS call it,
were injected into the blood of one suf-
fering from fever resulting from the
breaking down of the lung or other Or
gaDs the fever would be reduced. Act
ing on this hint, DR.. BergeOn. of Lyons,
France, began course of experiments
on consumptiyes which gave wonderful
results. The fever ceased in most cases,
and numbers were entirely cured, while
almost all were greatly benefited.
THE AMERICAN, ALWAYS QUICK
to grasp at new remedy, and one likely
to beStOw blessing on so many Suf-
fererS, at once became interested in the
subject and two eminent Philadelphia
physicians at once began exhaustive eX-
perimentS with the treatment, which
gave them wonderful results. Cures
were rapidly effected-nearly ali were
benefited, and this treatment was put
on firm basis. Amongst the first to
recognize this valuable therapeutic REM
edy were DR.. j. Cresap Mccoy and his
associates IN the west n0t6I. MIME
apolis, and No. IL West Third street, st.
Paul. So important did an exact knowl-
edge of the matter seem that, after a
conference, DR.. Mccoy decided to go
East and investigate this new treatment
thoroughly. This was done, and DR..
Mccoy returned from Philadelphia,
where the treatment has been thoroughly
tested.
A number of patients were at once
put on the treatment and began to inn
prove at once, gaining both in weight
and strength, and are now living monu-
mentS of the Bergeon treatment.
This new treatment can only be ap-
piled successfully by one who has in
yestigated the subject. Careless doc
tors and those not thoroughly ac-
quainted with its uses are liable to fail,
when skillful specialist, who has de-
voted his life to lung troubles, as has
DR.. Mccoy, will succeed. Again, this
treatment only remedies one or two
features of the disease, consumption,
but it adds the
MISSING LINK
in the history of the treatment of lung
diseases, and this, with the other dis
coverieS of late years, places specialist
on such basis that he can confidently
expect to earn his money while treating
consumption. Something which he
could not say ten years ago.